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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Rules? We don' need no steenkin' rules!

Basically saying to Congress, we do what we want to do.

Rule by Executive fiat.

Napolitano: DHS authorizing illegal aliens to work in the U.S.

By Edwin Mora - CNSNews -

(CNSNews.com) -- Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday that under the administration’s policy of exercising
“prosecutorial discretion” in the enforcement of the immigration laws,
her department is currently authorizing some illegal aliens to work in
the United States.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking-member of the Senate
Judiciary panel, asked Napolitano: “According to the information from
your department, some individuals who are given relief will obtain work
authorizations. So people with no right to be in the country will be
allowed to work here. Is that correct?”

Napolitano said: “Well, senator, since around 1986 there has been a
process where those who are technically unlawfully in the country may
apply for work authorization. This goes to CIS [Citizenship and
Immigration Services]. It's not an ICE [Immigration and Customs
Enforcement] or CBP [Customs and Border Protection] function. And those
cases are reviewed by CIS in a case-by-case basis. So there’s no change
in that process. Like I said, that goes back to the mid-80s that is
contemplated now.”